Château de Beauvoir

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Le château de Beauvoir is located in Beauvoir-en-Royans, in Isère. Built in the 13th century, it became the principal residence of the Dauphins of Viennois from 1258 onwards. Humbert II, the last reigning dauphin, had a vast palace built there, which is said to have had more than a thousand windows and could accommodate more than two thousand people. It was in this Dauphinois context that the Treaty of Romans was signed in 1349, ceding the Dauphiné to France. Today, the curtain wall, the great Dauphinois chapel, the keep and a few elements of the residential buildings survive, protected as Monuments historiques. The site houses a Dauphinois museum, founded in the 1920s by César Filhol, as well as a conservatory garden laid out in 2009, both open to the public.